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Suggestion for Sky Poker TV Show
I like Tuesdays. I look forward to watching the TV show on Sky Sports.
One tweak might improve things. I like the first hour showing play on a Cash Table and I like the second hour as it includes Top of the Pots.
Initially, I recall that there was a 10:05 turbo from which hands were shown and analysed. This was cancelled in favour of Heads Up play.
How about (1) swap things around and (2) reintroduce the MTT to the first hour?
The first hour becomes the MTT, the second hour becomes the Cash Table and Top of the Pots too.
I think that would be more attractive to the viewers. Heads Up is a bit of a difficult thing to cover with early exits, it doesn't allow new players a chance of appearing on television, it is less exciting than an MTT.
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Yes, agreed. All the component parts are good with some bits better than others. People, presenters, pros, analysts and guests are excellent.
I'll pass that on Rob, ditto the other bloke that posted that tikay "tries". I'd agree he can be trying.
As to showing an MTT on Sky Sports, not sure that's possible due to regulatory compliance. We cannot be seen to "call to action" on Sky Sports, & if we showed an MTT, it might be construed as a covert call to action. Heads Up, of course, is different, as only the Studio Guests can play it.
The logic - rightly or wrongly - is to give the Guest more time to interact with the Pro & loosen them up as to chatting.
Bear in mind also the demograph that the Show is targeted at - viewers who do NOT currently play poker, who we are looking to bring across from sports Betting & the like. Many existing Clients may take offence at that, but the fact is, making a TV show for existing Clients is just not cost-effective, there's almost zero payback.
The 2nd hour starts with the Chip Stack Challenge, though that, & the current Format generally, will change very soon. The new format was finalised just days ago, but now the Game Explainers have to be recorded, Edited, polished, etc.
You'll have noticed that the Presenter "throws" to the Analyst for Top of the Pots once the Chip Stack Challenge ends. The analyst then commentates on the hand, & after that, the Show continues as normal.
However, Top Of the Pots, which SEEMS to happen at the top of Hour Two, is actually pre-recorded BEFORE the Live Show starts.
That's the sneaky TV way of re-positioning the Guest, Presenter, & Pro, as the Chip Stack thing is done at the far end of the Studio, so it's hard to get them back in their seats in front of camera.
Various other bits & pieces are recorded "pre-Live", too.
The 3 guys who run Sky Poker TV - Dan, Chan & Louis - have been with Sky Poker for almost 25 years between them. All 3 are absolutely smashing lads, & do their best to ensure everything they do, they do to the very best of their ability. They are an absolute credit to Sky Poker, they really are.
yes, i understand that those issues might outweigh any desire to tweak things. i haven't forgotten the reason why i started playing though and that thrill of first watching poker using my sky satelite dish.
Suggestion for Sky Poker TV Show
Sounds good but I think it would be very hard to do because in a standard Sit and go it's not guarenteed to see both join guests join and could see no regs whilst password protected ones could start controversy and arguements over who could and couldn't play. With master cash it's easy to do because those like myself will get seated prior to the start of the show.
have a good show tonight, it'll be good with matt.
What do you think the "poker curious", the sports fans who watch on Sky Sports might make of it though? Would they prefer to watch a Sports "celeb" with whom they are familiar, or a collection of strange names with whom they are unfamiliar playing a tenner SNG?
The Show is specifically, deliberately & precisely targeted at a specific demograph - the Sky Sports audience.
I liked it when they had the Turbo MTT or even a Timed MTT which ran a couple of times, thought these worked well.
Greg.
People seem fixated with MTT's when discussing The Business & it's plans & aspirations, but they only represent around one sixth of Online Poker.
Broadly speaking, an online poker site grows primarily via acquisition & low churn. Acquisition is all, without it, the site dies very quickly, so that gets priority. Low churn is the result of looking after players well, which they seem to do from where I see it, & the results confirm that.
Increasingly, cross-sell is a vital growth tool, too. Sky Poker are fortunate to be a sister company to Sky Bet, for example, which is a huge company, & dwarfs Sky Poker - hence the "Half Time Tournaments" which seem to have vexed so many, but are a stroke of genius. What they do is to encourage people who are not currently poker players, but fit the demograph, to give poker a go.
Edit: The current challenge is the one I mean when saying having a challege like this. recs are ahead anyone unkown to poker sees this they'll think recs are just as good as pros
all is good. better might be to fill up the table somehow for the final 40 minutes?
Have the master cash table going one can only assume they are already breaking the rule.
Nobody in the general game would have been able to see my QJ in that hand ryan Ch raised with 109 and was called by matt, I did make the fold myself.
I'm not fussed about it myself but someone could argue stating that the show is showing a person's game.